Opponents of Sunset Park Rezoning Lose Legal Challenge

Crain’s reported that last week a court ruled in favor of the city’s 2009 rezoning of Sunset Park. A legal challenge against the rezoning claimed that the city hadn’t performed a complete environmental review of the area getting rezoned and that the rezoning would encourage more luxury development and large chain stores, resulting in widespread residential and commercial displacement and gentrification among Sunset Park’s low-income Asian and Latino communities. Crain’s notes that the rezoning, which covers 128 blocks, imposed 50-foot height limits on most side streets while encouraging more density on main drags like 4th and 7th avenues. The groups that filed the lawsuit, five local churches and the Chinese Staff and Workers’ Association, are mulling an appeal of the decision.
Big Sunset Park Rezoning Gets Green Light [Crain’s]